An introduction to the psychological theories and principles applied to the classroom. The course will include aspects of learning, motivation, classroom management, and assessment. Emphasis will be placed on developmentally designed instruction for all students.

An overview of communication and technology as it relates to teaching and learning. This course includes the design, production and utilization of materials and operation of audiovisual equipment and microcomputers. This course will meet the Georgia Technology certification requirement.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. A study of etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of fluency disorders in children and adults. This course is designed to cover causal factors of fluency disorders in children and adults, and cover assessment, treatment and prevention procedures appropriate for children and adults.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. This course is a studey of etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of voice and resonance disorders in children and adults. It is designed to cover the major functional, organic, and neurogenic voice and resonance disorders and the most current, evidence-based therapeutic approaches.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. Advanced study of the etiology, characteristics, assessment, and intervention principles involved in acquired language and related disorders in adults. Topics include aphasia, traumatic brain injury, dementia, and right hemisphere dysfunction.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. This course covers the communicative and educational management of children and adults with hearing loss. Areas of specific focus include the impact of hearing loss on development, intervention models, amplification, auditory training, visual/manual communication, deaf education, and central auditory processing disorders.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; SLPA 3760 or equivalent; advisor permission. Advanced articulation and phonological disorders is designed to offer students information and practice in gaining clinical skills in speech-language pathology techniques for intervention with difficult-to-manage articulation/phonological disorders in schools or other clinical settings. Prior clinical practice and successful completion of an undergraduate/introductory course in articulation/phonology are required as prerequisites for this course.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. This course studies motor speech dysfunction in children and adults. Emphasis is on etiologies, characteristics, prevention, assessment/ differential diagnosis, and intervention approaches to management and habilitation/rehabilitation.

This course studies swallowing disorders in pediatric and adult populations. Emphasis is on etiologies, characteristics, prevention, assessment/differential diagnosis, cultural factors, and intervention approaches to management and habilitation/rehabilitation. Interdisciplinary approaches to the assessment and treatment of swallowing disorders are discussed.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. This course is a study of the auditory disorders in children and adults. Areas covered include characteristics, assessment, etiology, and treatment of disorders of the external ear, middle ear, inner ear, and central auditory nervous system.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. This course offers students formal and informal opportunities to increase professional knowledge and skills in speech-language pathology through readings, seminar interactions, and other educational delivery formats. Portions of the course may be delivered on-line. Students enrolled in this course may engage in professional seminars designed to increase expertise in designated areas of emerging and traditional trends of the profession through guided professional interactions.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. This seminar course covers the fundamentals of behavioral statistics, scientific research as it relates to issues and trends in the area of speech-language pathology, and the design and development of a scientific research project in communication disorders.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission; SLPA 6761. This course provides direct clinical experience in which the graduate clinician practices under the supervision of CCC-SLP/A clinicians with individuals exhibiting a diverse range of mild communication disorders. Assignments of clients will be dependent upon student's prior academic, and clinical experiences, and verified by the clinic director. This experience is accumulated in a variety of on- and off-site clinical settings. The acquisition and management of information on etiology, characteristics, assessment, prevention, and intervention is emphasized for approximately 1-3 clients with mild speech/language disorders seen in individual sessions twice weekly.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; consent of advisor, SLPA 4790; SLPA 4791; SLPA 6790. This course provides continued direct clinical experience in which the graduate clinician practices under the supervision of CCC-SLP/A clinicians with individuals exhibiting a diverse range of moderate communication disorders; assignments of clients will be dependent upon student's prior success in SLPA 6790, and upon prior academic, and clinial eperiences and verified by the clinical director. This experience is accumulated in a variety of on-and off-site clinical settings. The acquisition and management of information on etiology, characteristics, assessment, prevention, and intervention is emphasized for approximately 4-5 clients with moderate impairments seen in group and individual settings twice weekly.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; consent of advisor; SLPA 6761, SLPA 6790, SLPA 6791. This course provides extended and direct clinical experience in which the graduate clinician practices under the supervision of CCC-SLP/A clinicians with individuals exhibiting a diverse range of moderate-severe communication disorders; assignments of clients will be dependent upon student's prior success in SLPA 6790, SLPA 6791, and upon prior academic, and clinical experiences and verified by the clinical director. This experience is accumulated in a variety of on- and off-site clinical settings. The acquisition and management of information on etiology, characteristics, assessment, prevention, and intervention is emphasized for approximately 7-8 clients with moderate-severe disorders in group and individual settings 2-3 times weekly.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; consent of advisor; SLPA 6761; SLPA 6790; SLPA 6791; SLPA 6792. This course provides extended and direct clinical experience in which the graduate clinician practices under the supervision of CCC-SLP/A clinicians with individuals exhibiting a diverse reange of severe-profound communication disorders; assignments of clients will be dependent upon student's prior success in SLPA 6790, SLPA 6791, SLPA 6792, and upon prior academic, and clinical experiences and verified by the clinical director. Students in this clinic are likely to serve adults with neurogenic communication disorders as well as the severely-profoundly communication impaired child/adolescent. This experience is accumulated in a variety of on- and off-site clinical settings. The acquisition and management of information on etiology, characteristics, assessment, prevention, and intervention is emphasized for approximately 7-8 clients with severe-profound communication disorders in group and individual settings 2-3 times weekly.

This course provides supervised clinical experience in speech/language therapy for the speech pathology major and satisfies student teaching requirements. Speech- language assessment, intervention, and case management are emphasized. Students will attend a weekly seminar designed to augment concurrent classroom experiences.

Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education; advisor permission. A study of etiology, characteristics, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and prevention of speech and language disorders in children, including those children with multicultural backgrounds and special needs. This course is designed to focus on characteristics of growth, norm-reference and criterion-referenced measures, and assessment and intervention procedures and strategies related to reading and literacy development.

A study of the characteristics, nature and features of disabilities with emphasis on mild and moderate diabilities, including etiology, definition, identification, age- and level-related characteristics, associated conditions, family/community issues, service needs and options, and resources. "Best" teaching practices for this population will be examined. Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education.

Theoretical formulations and practical applications of behavioral and instructional techniques, especially as they apply to classroom managment and assisting students in developing pro-social behavior. Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education.